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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07SHENYANG101 |
PRC/DPRK: BORDER TRADE AND SOME NEW FRICTIONS (MAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There continue to be differences between Jilin and Liaoning Provinces in the volume and scrutiny of their trade with North Korea. PRC-DPRK frictions have recently emerged in Ji'an, where Chinese officials have taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing neighboring North Korea [...] |
2007-05-31 02:33:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG102 |
PRC/DPRK: SCARLET FEVER, SMUGGLING, BORDER- [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC authorities in Jilin recently claimed they have taken measures to prevent a scarlet fever outbreak in the DPRK from making its way into China. Though officials would not confirm the outbreak, they privately stressed that they are prepared. South Koreans appear to be playing b [...] |
2007-05-31 02:34:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF PINR KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG108 |
DPRK NUKE AFTERMATH, UNSCR 1718 ENFORCEMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hours after Pyongyang's October 9, 2006 nuclear test, the PLA dispatched a team to Changbai--the PRC border locality closest to the site of the explosion-- to test for contamination, according to Changbai County Communist Party Secretary Miao Chunxiu. Miao said he learned about [...] |
2007-06-05 04:31:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ECON KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG115 |
DPRK-INTERNAL: RASON TURBINES, MORE PUST DELAYS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPRK and ROK officials are expected to meet soon in Shenyang to discuss a humanitarian group's proposal to privately finance and install a 750 KW wind turbine in Rason. The opening of Pyongyang's first private university has been pushed back until 2008 as a result of export licen [...] |
2007-06-25 08:32:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG126 |
PRC-DPRK: BORDER INSPECTIONS AND TRADE ISSUES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Official Chinese scrutiny of land-based PRC-DPRK cargo/passenger traffic continues to range along the border into mid-2007. Land ports in Nanping (conduit for the many tons of iron ore extracted from North Korea's Musan mine) and Dandong are sites of significant levels of activit [...] |
2007-07-09 02:21:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG127 |
PRC-ROK KOGURYO SPARRING CONTINUES, QUIETLY, IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly two years after an August 2005 agreement aimed at shelving their neuralgic political dispute over Koguryo--the kingdom that at various points between 37 BC and 668 AD subsumed parts of modern-day northeast China, North Korea and South Korea--PRC-ROK dueling over ancient hi [...] |
2007-07-09 03:24:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR CH KN KS |
| 07SHENYANG128 |
PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS; DRUGS; NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post contacts report that, at least anecdotally, the numbers of North Korean border-crossers encountered this year are fewer than last, though the overall numbers and reasons for the decline are unclear. Jilin Province's ongoing anti-drug campaign is netting more seizures of illeg [...] |
2007-07-09 03:25:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR PGOV KWMN KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG131 |
Taiwan's Kuomintang Representative Given Warm Reception in Harbin [...] Summary: The 18th Harbin International Fair for Trade and Economic Cooperation attracted participants from all over the world, showing that what was once largely a Sino-Russian event has become truly international. Event organizers claimed two hundred of the world's five hundred largest corpor [...] |
2007-07-11 09:12:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH TW |
| 07SHENYANG133 |
NORTH KOREAN "NEOVIAGRA," MINERALS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A visit to Dandong's second DPRK Import- Export Commodity Fair in late June highlighted China's interest in North Korean natural resources and the comparatively low wage rates on the North Korean side of the border. But contacts point out that further down the proverbial line, th [...] |
2007-07-13 03:24:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG145 |
PRC-DPRK: BORDER OFFICIALS ON MUSAN MINE, RAJIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC imports of North Korean iron ore from Musan are fueling a surge in activity at China's Nanping Land Port; Chinese truckers collecting the ore comprised over ninety percent of the 50,000 passengers that transited the port last year, local Chinese officials say. Plans to link n [...] |
2007-07-27 07:26:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV ECON PREL KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG147 |
HIV/AIDS AND AVIAN FLU IN NORTHEAST CHINA: STATUS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Health officials in Liaoning Province claim remarkably few official HIV/AIDS cases, though they acknowledge a nexus between the virus, the province's growing drug problem and its seedy sex industry. Liaoning's Center for Disease Control (CDC) is "not worried" about an imminent avi [...] |
2007-08-01 06:04:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | KFLU KHIV TBIO PGOV SOCI EAGR CH |
| 07SHENYANG152 |
ANGANG STEEL HOPES TO GROW AT HOME AND ABROAD [...] Summary: Zhang Xiaogang, Chairman of Anshan Iron and Steel Corporation (AnSteel), recently discussed an impending meeting with John Surma, President of International Iron and Steel Institute and potential cooperation with U.S. Steel Executive Committee of the IISI in New York on July 12 and 13, [...] |
2007-08-03 08:46:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH |
| 07SHENYANG153 |
THEY "WON'T LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK": PRESS CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conservative propaganda officials in northeast China continue to gag, muffle or otherwise "manage" perceived negative news, according to Liaoning journalists and Party sources, who note that media freedom generally tends to be more restricted here than in other parts of China. Pr [...] |
2007-08-06 08:46:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07SHENYANG155 |
China's Brilliance Automotive to Enter U.S. Market in [...] Summary. Liu Xuemin, General Office Vice-Director of Huachen Group told Econoff recently that, contrary to some trade reports about delays, China's Brilliance Automotive -- the publicly traded arm of state-owned Huachen Group -- will begin exports to the United States in early September of thi [...] |
2007-08-07 08:39:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH |
| 07SHENYANG171 |
SHENYANG'S AVIATION ECONOMIC ZONE BRING'S MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: City officials and business representatives confirmed that Shenyang will establish an aviation economic zone in the area south of the Hunnan Development Zone and north of Taoxian International Airport and that Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) will establish a new company made u [...] |
2007-09-07 10:06:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAIR ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PREL |
| 07SHENYANG174 |
CHINA/SOE REFORM: A DALIAN PERSPECTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. Dalian's State Assets Supervisory and Administration Commission (SASAC) is, like other SASAC entities throughout China, seeking to reform its thirty-eight state-owned enterprises (SOE), by improving internal management, reducing the overall number of companies, and changing own [...] |
2007-09-12 09:10:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV EPIT EFIN CH |
| 07SHENYANG175 |
LATE AUGUST TRIP TO THE DPRK/CHINA/RUSSIA BORDER [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-12 10:07:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR PGOV KS KN CH |
| 07SHENYANG178 |
PRC/DPRK: NEW NK BORDER FENCING; INSPECTIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent PRC inspections of cross-border PRC- DPRK traffic through Dandong show no change. One Western NGO recently shipping flood-related medical aid to North Korea encountered rather "strict" PRC customs requirements that slowed the shipment by several days. North Korea has star [...] |
2007-09-14 11:06:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ECON PREF KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG184 |
AIDING NORTH KOREAN PATIENTS (AND BORDER- [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Dandong-based, Korean-American NGO focused on North Korea continues to ship medical aid into the DPRK, but headaches abound as the group seeks to refine its aid strategy. In a modest hospital near the PRC-DPRK border, the group also discreetly tends to North Korean border-cross [...] |
2007-09-28 08:35:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PINR KWMN KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG205 |
PRC-DPRK: NK BORDER-CROSSERS, HUMAN SMUGGLING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The number of North Korean border-crossers entering China in 2007 thus far looks to be roughly on par with 2005/2006 levels despite the DPRK's agricultural difficulties and natural disasters earlier this year, according to a Liaoning scholar engaged in internal, state- sponsored r [...] |
2007-10-29 05:46:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR KWMN KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG216 |
PYONGYANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] (C) Summary: Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST) President and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) founding President Dr. Kim Chin Kyong, PUST Executive Vice President David Kim, and YUST Director Norma Nichols provided updates on PUST construction progress and [...] |
2007-11-19 07:58:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR KWMN KN KS CH SPILL |
| 07SHENYANG220 |
INVESTOR PROTESTS ROCK SHENYANG [...] (C) SUMMARY: A relatively small group of protestors assembled outside Consulate General Shenyang early in the afternoon of 21 November to protest the failure of ant-farming health-product company Yilishen to pay dividends. The protests were not directed at the United States, but rather at the [...] |
2007-11-21 10:05:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PINS SOCI CH |
| 07SHENYANG222 |
CHINA: AMBASSADOR HOLMER MEETS WITH SHENYANG AMERICAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a lunch meeting with Ambassador Alan Holmer, American business leaders in Shenyang expressed worry about the appreciation of the Renminbi and the weakness of the dollar, while admitting that the lower dollar did offer some competitive advantages, especially against European c [...] |
2007-11-23 07:45:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV EIND CH |
| 07SHENYANG223 |
BRILLIANCE SLOWS APPROACH TO U.S. MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary. Brilliance Automotive plans to delay its entry into the United States market while it resolves safety and environmental standards issues for its line of high-end sedans. The company cites a return to profitability and a desire to make its market debut a clear success as the ma [...] |
2007-11-26 07:46:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EPIT EFIN PROV WTRO CH |
| 07SHENYANG229 |
(S) NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS: PRC THINKING ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: One of China's leading state-sponsored specialists on North Korean border-crossers foresees no near-term evolution in PRC thinking on the UNHCR and its possible role in northeast China. On a separate issue, the specialist also claimed that foreign activists publicizing their effo [...] |
2007-11-28 04:19:00 | Consulate Shenyang | SECRET | PREF KWMN PINR KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG244 |
PRC-DPRK: UPDATE ON NK REPATRIATIONS/ASYLUM- [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC border officials in Baishan tell us that they continue to apprehend and repatriate North Korean border-crossers in their jurisdiction. Japan's Shenyang Consulate is now home to seven North Korean asylum-seekers, including two young children. North Korean authorities near Si [...] |
2007-12-13 03:56:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PINR KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG245 |
"ANT POWER" PROTESTS LEAVE LIAONING SIMMERING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The political fallout from days of protests over a collapsed pyramid scheme involving hundreds of thousands of northeastern Chinese has put authorities in conservative Liaoning Province, and perhaps some in Beijing, in an uncomfortable political corner. Underreported in the Wester [...] |
2007-12-18 05:36:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PINS SOCI ECON CH |
| 07SHENYANG248 |
ARE CHINA'S INFLATION NUMBERS DEFLATED [...] Summary. Recent press and government reports put China's inflation rate at around six percent per year and attribute most of the rise to food prices, which constitute one third of the core index. However, a recent visit to local markets indicates that the real rate of consumer price inflatio [...] |
2007-12-19 08:16:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV CH |
| 07SHENYANG250 |
CESSNA HOPES TO OPEN CHINA TO PRIVATE AVIATION [...] (U) Cessna Aircraft Corporation, as part of successful negotiations to contract with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) to manufacture Cessna's new 162 Skycatcher Light Sport Aircraft (LSA), received assurances from Chinese officials that, by the time the aircraft rolls off the production lin [...] |
2007-12-20 07:39:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAIR ECON PREL |
| 07SHENYANG251 |
EXCESS DOMESTIC DEMAND DRIVES CHINA'S GRAIN MARKET [...] (C) Summary. China will not allow any exports of corn or soybeans during 2008 and will radically curtail wheat exports, according to Wang Haisheng, Director of state-owned Jilin Grain Group and General Manager of Jilin Grain Group Export and Import Company. Wang,s company, which accounts for [...] |
2007-12-26 07:37:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAGR ECON EIND EINT ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV |
| 07SHENYANG78 |
NORTH KOREA/CHINA: SMALLER-SCALE SMUGGLING ACROSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a recent crackdown by PRC and DPRK authorities, Chinese smugglers--often partnering with local North Korean military contacts--reportedly continue to operate near Dandong. A fair amount of smuggling in the area appears to be smaller-scale in nature, though profits can nev [...] |
2007-04-30 10:27:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG79 |
NORTH KOREA ROUNDUP: PROPAGANDA, REMITTANCES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is a roundup of North Korea-related information collected by Post in recent weeks. Contacts report that nuclear propaganda has recently started disappearing in North Korea's major cities, including Pyongyang. Pyongyang's private university, PUST, appears to be back on track [...] |
2007-04-30 10:29:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH |
| 07SHENYANG95 |
PRC HUMAN RIGHTS--YAO FUXIN UPDATE: HEALTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The health of Yao Fuxin, the imprisoned Liaoning labor leader whose case gained international and high-level USG attention in 2003, has declined considerably since 2005, according to his family. Yao's daughter is surveilled by PRC security services, some authorities refuse to acc [...] |
2007-05-22 09:37:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINR PINS SOCI CH |
| 08SHENYANG103 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER TIGHTENS PRE-OLYMPICS: DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local officials confirm they have taken measures to "strengthen control" of the PRC-DPRK border region during the Olympics. New checkpoints have been established outside some sensitive border cities. The PRC "through diplomatic channels" requested that the DPRK stem border-cross [...] |
2008-07-29 05:40:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF ASEC KN CH |
| 08SHENYANG109 |
PRC-DPRK: BORDER-CROSSERS AND THEIR OFFSPRING; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts along the PRC-DPRK border report smaller-than-usual numbers of North Korean border-crossers this summer. Civil Affairs officials in one key border city screen detained border-crossers for infectious diseases and arrange for medical care pending repatriation. Children bor [...] |
2008-08-06 06:13:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF KN CH |
| 08SHENYANG116 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER DEFENSE, BORDER-CROSSERS, NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC has made some progress in PRC-DPRK border security in recent years, but advances ought not be overestimated, say northeast China experts. Although new investment, infrastructural improvements and modern technologies have enhanced defense capacity, the border remains porou [...] |
2008-08-20 05:20:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF ASEC KTIP SNAR KN CH |
| 08SHENYANG12 |
NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS: MORE PRC THINKING; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The small group of specialists researching North Korean border-crossers for the PRC government largely endorses Chinese policy on the issue, even if small differences exist. One researcher said a PRC "transit corridor" permitting North Koreans to quietly traverse Chinese territor [...] |
2008-01-18 00:38:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV PINR GTIP KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG122 |
MEETING WITH LIAONING ENTRY EXIT BUREAU RE [...] (SBU) On September 5, conoffs met with Liaoning Provincial Entry Exit Administration Bureau (EEB) officials to discuss the issues and information outlined in State 90800. Representing the EEB, which is a subset of the Public Security Division, were Ms. Du Juan, Bureau Chief, and Mr. Liang Qi [...] |
2008-09-05 05:37:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KFRD PTER ASEC CVIS CH EC |
| 08SHENYANG123 |
POOR DPRK ATTENDANCE, SOME SHIPPING NEWS, AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pyongyang's delegation to the Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Expo, held last week in Jilin Province, appeared smaller that last year's. North Korean diplomats at the expo privately praised China's grain harvest, with one claiming the DPRK's crop was also "good." In a keynote [...] |
2008-09-09 23:51:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EWWT ENRG KN KS JA RS CH |
| 08SHENYANG13 |
PRC: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM A MIXED PICTURE IN YANBIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Religious freedom is enjoying modest improvement in a key ethnic minority enclave of Jilin Province, near the PRC-DPRK border. Christianity is making inroads among local Chinese, migrant workers, and North Korean border-crossers. "House churches," many with links to official chu [...] |
2008-01-24 01:25:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG134 |
NORTHEAST CHINA: CORRUPTION SCANDALS SNARE JUDGES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Corruption scandals in northeast China over the past year have reached levels in seniority unseen for several years. Jilin Province quietly sacked ten of its High Court judges, but legal contacts say the Party prevented a thorough investigation. Attorneys report that judicial co [...] |
2008-09-26 05:02:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH |
| 08SHENYANG135 |
NORTHEAST CHINA: CORRUPTION SCANDALS SNARE JUDGES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Corruption scandals in northeast China over the past year have reached levels in seniority unseen for several years. Jilin Province quietly sacked ten of its High Court judges, but legal contacts say the Party prevented a thorough investigation. Attorneys report that judicial co [...] |
2008-09-26 05:02:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH |
| 08SHENYANG136 |
DALIAN PORT GROUP EXPANDS REACH THROUGHOUT [...] (U) Summary. The "Five Points One Line" development plan, devised by former Liaoning Party Secretary and current Executive Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, is virtually co-extensive with the expansion of Dalian Port Group, which continues to broaden its reach throughout Northeast China (Ref A). In ad [...] |
2008-09-26 05:06:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON ETRD EWWT PGOV PREL |
| 08SHENYANG138 |
SUBJECT: CHINA,S SUCCOTASH SECURITY-PLENTY OF CORN [...] (C) Summary. Jilin Grain, a key enterprise in China,s drive for grain security, sees continued price pressure in soy beans and oil. Jilin and other corporate entities in China are taking major steps to increase the amount of China-controlled soy plantation both in China and around the world. [...] |
2008-09-29 06:44:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAGR ECON PREL EIND EINT ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV |
| 08SHENYANG14 |
CHINA'S DPRK-BOUND FOOD AID, AG EXPORTS CONTINUE [...] (S) SUMMARY: Contrary to ROK press reports, PRC food aid and agricultural exports to the DPRK have not been suspended as a result of increased export tariffs on grain and other agricultural commodities imposed by Beijing in a bid to counter domestic inflation. New export regulations and a dro [...] |
2008-01-24 02:15:00 | Consulate Shenyang | SECRET | PINR PGOV ECON ETRD EAGR KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG15 |
BRILLIANCE EXPANDS FINANCIAL AND COMPONENT [...] (C) Summary. Shenyang's Huachen Brilliance Automotive, which plans to enter the U.S. market later this year, has completed negotiations and regulatory steps to establish a joint-venture automotive-finance corporation with U.S.-based GE Money. The joint venture will begin operations in China [...] |
2008-01-25 03:30:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EPIT EFIN PROV WTRO CH |
| 08SHENYANG150 |
PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...] |
2008-11-04 05:29:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG151 |
PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...] |
2008-11-04 05:30:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG152 |
PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN DIPLOMATS; FOOD SECURITY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korean diplomats in northeast China did not, contrary to rumor, receive orders from Pyongyang restricting their travel in October, and trade officials recently recalled to Sinuiju reported no changes given them in policy direction, say contacts. PRC security posture appears [...] |
2008-11-04 05:30:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG16 |
CASH FINANCING MAINTAINS HOUSING BOOM IN NORTHEAST [...] (U) Summary. Similar to the early days of the boom in other parts of China, housing developers in Northeast China raise cash chiefly through high-return, advance purchase agreements without recourse to the banking system and are thus immune from tighter credit controls. The current glut o [...] |
2008-01-25 03:30:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV CH |
| 08SHENYANG169 |
Labor Contract Law Slows Hiring and Investment in China's [...] (SBU) Summary: China's Labor Contract Law has had an uneven impact on major foreign and domestic businesses in Northeast China. While many of the results are seen as beneficial to labor, the law has had some unintended consequences detrimental to workers interests. Both companies and their em [...] |
2008-11-26 05:08:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV PREL HK CH |
| 08SHENYANG173 |
LIAONING'S ECONOMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT [...] (C) Summary. Local leaders in three of the Liaoning Province's less well-off urban areas put a good front on this province's relative resiliency in the face of recession but privately conceded their worries. The most telling statistic is electricity demand, which was flat in October and dropp [...] |
2008-12-03 03:09:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAGR ECON EFIN ENRG PINR PREL |
| 08SHENYANG185 |
NORTH KOREA: RAJIN PORT FRICTIONS; CHINESE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese commercial concerns have been focusing on the North Korean port of Chongjin since Pyongyang recently terminated a Chinese company's lease rights at the DPRK port of Rajin and awarded those privileges to a state-owned Russian firm. One Chinese scholar claims the move is fu [...] |
2008-12-24 02:50:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR EWWT KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG189 |
PRC-DPRK: CHINA'S COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1718 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two years on, PRC compliance with the spirit of UN Security Council Resolution 1718's luxury- goods provisions appears limited at best. Dandong and other border officials tell us privately that while they are implementing military-related provisions of UNSCR 1718, they are not en [...] |
2008-12-30 23:51:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG19 |
SENIOR HEILONGJIANG OFFICIALS ON STABILITY-RELATED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Inflation is a pressing concern for senior Heilongjiang officials, who are implementing a full range of countermeasures not always made public in order to avoid a panic. Along with new export taxes, the policy of supplying grain and coal nationwide to cover excess domestic demand [...] |
2008-02-13 02:58:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON EIND ETRD CH KN RS |
| 08SHENYANG3 |
PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: YAO FUXIN ABUSE ALLEGATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Health problems continue to beset imprisoned Liaoning labor activist Yao Fuxin, whose case has triggered high-level USG attention since his initial arrest in 2002. In a letter to his daughter he recently managed to have smuggled out of prison, Yao for the first time described sev [...] |
2008-01-07 07:43:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINS SOCI CH |
| 08SHENYANG30 |
PRC/DPRK: IMPACT OF PRC EXPORT RESTRICTIONS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEW PRC EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ARE DELAYING, IN SOME CASES BY MANY WEEKS, SHIPMENTS OF KEY CHINESE COMMODITIES TO NORTH KOREA VIA DANDONG. IN LIMITED CASES, BEIJING IS GRANTING TEMPORARY WAIVERS FOR PRC FIRMS WITH LARGE, PREEXISTING CONTRACTS IN THE DPRK. PYONGYANG IS DISPLEASED, [...] |
2008-03-03 06:00:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV ECON ETRD KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG36 |
"SLAVE LABOR" SCANDAL HITS CHINA AGAIN: 33 FORCED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Authorities in Heilongjiang Province announced yesterday that they discovered 33 migrant "slave laborers" held captive and coerced to work--some for as long as three years--in a suburb of the provincial capital. Initial reports claim the captors "systematically" targeted vulnerabl [...] |
2008-03-20 10:14:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB GTIP KCRM ECON CH |
| 08SHENYANG37 |
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PRC-DPRK BORDER TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: New PRC export restrictions are complicating some PRC-DPRK trade and contractual relationships, according to more Chinese trade officials. North Korean businessmen have been sent abroad recently on grain "purchasing" missions, essentially requesting free "donations" in places like [...] |
2008-03-21 02:10:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV ECON ETRD PREF KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG38 |
NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS: PRC OLYMPICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two Chinese provincial governments hosting Olympics events this summer have enlisted Korea specialists to investigate potential contingencies involving North Korean border-crossers or activists that support them. Scholars in Liaoning and Shandong have told us they are keeping a cl [...] |
2008-03-21 08:04:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG44 |
NORTHEAST CHINA LEADERS TO WATCH (PT. 1): LIAONING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Northeast China is home to a number of promising, up-and-coming officials worth watching as they seek to prove their political mettle in "revitalizing" this strategic corner of the PRC. Communist Youth League lineages remain a common denominator in most, but not all, profilees. [...] |
2008-04-07 00:30:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON CH |
| 08SHENYANG45 |
NORTHEAST CHINA LEADERS TO WATCH (PT. 2): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Northeast China is home to a number of promising, up-and-coming officials worth watching as they seek to prove their political mettle in "revitalizing" this strategic corner of the PRC. Communist Youth League lineages remain a common denominator in most, but not all, profilees. [...] |
2008-04-08 07:54:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON CH |
| 08SHENYANG48 |
MORE INTERNAL PRC RESEARCH ON NK BORDER-CROSSERS: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Northeast China is home to 10,000-20,000 North Koreans, according to the internal research of another one of the few Chinese specialists studying North Korean border-crosser issues for the PRC Government. PRC policy toward North Korean border-crossers shifted in 2002 in part beca [...] |
2008-04-10 01:12:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PINR PGOV PREL PHUM KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG51 |
LIAONING AND SHENYANG PARTY CHIEFS ON GOVERNANCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a meeting with the Ambassador in Shenyang, Liaoning Province's new Party Secretary, Zhang Wenyue, explained that high-level attention from Beijing, a booming economy and growing revenue expansion are bankrolling Liaoning Province's efforts to address key social-stability issues [...] |
2008-04-15 07:36:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PREF ECON KN CH |
| 08SHENYANG56 |
REPORTS OF MAJOR DROUGHT IN CHINA'S NORTHEAST ARE [...] (C) Summary. Over the past six weeks, China's Xinhua News Agency has published numerous reports of serious drought in Northeast China, many of which were picked up by western wire services. Econoff,s queries about the drought during a series of trips around the region, however, met with res [...] |
2008-04-25 06:03:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV |
| 08SHENYANG67 |
NORTH KOREA: PRICE WOES, SQUEEZED AID GROUPS, PRC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent returnees from Pyongyang, Sinuiju and Rason point to sharply surging food prices in the DPRK. North Korean laborers employed by one aid group in Rason have complained that food-inflation has eviscerated their purchasing power. Customs officials in Yanbian are strictly enfo [...] |
2008-05-22 00:10:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG68 |
DPRK FOOD TROUBLES AND PRC-DPRK RESPONSES: VIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC-DPRK border contacts agree that the DPRK's food situation is more dire than in recent years, but remain divided on the question of severity, with some contending conditions are "not as extreme as being reported in the West." North Korean diplomats and other officials have ack [...] |
2008-05-29 05:33:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF EAGR KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG7 |
PRC-DPRK: TRILATERAL RAILWAY HANG-UPS; MUSAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unreported DPRK-related obstacles appear likely to delay the implementation of a late December PRC- DPRK-Russian agreement that aims to link the Greater Tumen region by railway; Chinese contacts are pessimistic that the new Tumen-Tumangang-Khasan cargo-transport corridor, even if [...] |
2008-01-16 02:25:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG71 |
PRC-DPRK: BORDER-CROSSERS, RELIGIOUS TROUBLES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC appears to have tightened internal security in the PRC-DPRK borderlands in recent months, though border-crossers continue to trickle into China. Border residents report increased official scrutiny of some religious activities. Yanji officials warned religious leaders that [...] |
2008-05-30 06:56:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG76 |
DPRK: RASON THROUGH THE EYES OF AN AID WORKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rason, in northeastern North Korea, is home to a variety of foreign-assistance ventures, involving everything from agriculture and animal husbandry to power generation, transportation and pharmaceuticals, according to a Westerner involved in several projects there, but tensions ha [...] |
2008-06-13 00:20:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KN KS CH |
| 08SHENYANG84 |
HAO YUE ISLAMIC BEEF REVAMPS DOMESTIC STRATEGY TO [...] Summary. Hao Yue Islamic Beef Company (one of the largest beef companies in China) has changed its sales strategy in order to control retail prices and take advantage of beef's increasing importance in the Chinese diet. While Hao Yue previously serviced the domestic market by selling to who [...] |
2008-06-24 00:54:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EAGR CH |
| 09SHENYANG119 |
DPRK REFUGEES: MORE DIVERSE, ELITE, AND RELIANT UPON BROKERS [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-08 04:46:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREF PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG127 |
XI JINPING'S JOURNEY TO THE EAST [...] (C) Summary. On July 8-10 Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping paid a stealthy and unusual visit to Dalian and Yingkou, two key areas of strength and support for First Vice Premier Li Keqiang. The visits were characterized by witnesses as "unfriendly." We also learned that two major Liaoning [...] |
2009-07-17 03:57:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON PGOV PREF PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG130 |
TONGHUA, JILIN STEELWORKERS' PROTEST LEADS TO [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-27 07:03:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON ELAB PGOV |
| 09SHENYANG134 |
DANDONG VANADIUM SEIZURE PART OF "CONTINUING [...] (S) Summary. Reports of a July 24 seizure of 70 kilograms of vanadium at the China-North Korea border at Dandong were confirmed by Customs Officials, who portrayed the event as business as usual. A key government contact, however, took pains to tell us that in fact things have tightened up [...] |
2009-07-29 04:10:00 | Consulate Shenyang | SECRET | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREF PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG137 |
CHINESE VANADIUM SEIZURE FOLLOW-UP [...] (C)Summary. On July 30 Congenoffs went to Dandong to observe land port inspections and meet with Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) officials regarding the discovery of an attempt to smuggle vanadium concealed in fruit containers (reftel). Officials clarified that the vanadium had actually been disc [...] |
2009-07-31 04:26:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREF PEL RS |
| 09SHENYANG141 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: DPRK ECONOMY ROBUST, UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sources agree that the North Korean economy appears to be the strongest it has been in recent memory. Chinese officials may be enforcing UNSC 1874 (Ref A, B) and financial sanctions through stepped-up inspections at the PRC-DPRK border, but there is local skepticism about the abil [...] |
2009-08-13 04:02:00 | Consulate Shenyang | SECRET | CH ECON KN KS PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG142 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: HARDLY ANY NEW REFUGEES AT ALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts in the PRC-DPRK borderlands indicate that as of August 2009, there are virtually no new DPRK refugees crossing the Tumen River with the goal of settling in China (Ref A) but that the area is home to many refugees from the late 1990s, not a few of whom have integrated into [...] |
2009-08-13 04:06:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREF PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG143 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: RASON, PUST, PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rason is the most open and liberalized place in North Korea, but minor improvements in relations with DPRK officials there should not be read as evidence of further engagement or liberalization, according to two key NGO contacts. Meanwhile, the Pyongyang University of Science and [...] |
2009-08-14 01:35:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG148 |
PRC EXPERT FORESEES NO INSTABILITY IN DPRK POWER [...] (C) Summary: Jilin Province's foremost Korean Peninsula scholar does not foresee instability during the transfer of power to DPRK leader Kim Jong-il's successor, but predicated longer-term stability on an improved economic situation. After his reshuffle of the military in early 2009, Kim has [...] |
2009-08-21 03:10:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ECON KN KS CH |
| 09SHENYANG150 |
YAO FUXIN'S LABOR PAINS: LABOR LEADER'S [...] (C) Summary. The family of labor activist Yao Fuxin, who was released from prison in March 2009, is still subject to restrictions on travel and very close scrutiny of all of their actions, according to the activist's daughter Yao Dan, who has reported to us periodically (Ref A and B). Mr. Yao' [...] |
2009-08-25 03:37:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PINR PINS SOCI CH SPILL |
| 09SHENYANG152 |
TONGHUA PROTEST FOLLOW-UP: INVESTIGATION GOING [...] (C) Summary. Wang Shou Kun, chief economic research advisor investigating the Tonghua Steel factory labor disturbance that resulted in the death a manager (reftel) says the Jilin government is committed to getting to the bottom of what happened but that no arrests have been made. Rumors of maf [...] |
2009-08-27 02:39:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON ELAB PGOV PINS SPILL |
| 09SHENYANG161 |
DPRK CHARM IN NE CHINA: WE THINK WE WANT TO TRUST [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Shenyang-based DPRK diplomat sought out a Korean-speaking Shenyang ConGenOff at social events on the margins of two Chinese-sponsored trade fairs to make three points: 1) the "political winds" in Pyongyang are changing, and DPRK leader Kim Jong-il desires close ties and friend [...] |
2009-09-04 04:24:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREL |
| 09SHENYANG163 |
DPRK: PYONGYANG UNIVERSITY CEREMONY "TUG OF WAR" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DPRK has apparently retracted invitations to Western media to cover the opening ceremony of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) while welcoming PUST's supporters, including South Korean citizens and the ROK media. The ROKG, however, has reportedly barred [...] |
2009-09-15 02:53:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PREL SCUL |
| 09SHENYANG164 |
DPRK BUSINESS LEANS FORWARD IN NE CHINA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DPRK seems to be taking a more active approach to business in Northeast China when compared to 2008 (reftel), bringing a large government and business delegation to this region's major trade fair. A senior- level DPRK official used a public forum to make political statements [...] |
2009-09-16 04:01:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG167 |
JILIN TRADE FAIRS: CHINESE SELF-ADULATION, LOCAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trade fairs in Northeast China are becoming larger productions, with aims beyond mere regional cooperation. The Chinese seem to be moving away from the UNDP Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI) begun in the early 1990s to new China-only regional projects. Northeast China's main trade [...] |
2009-09-17 21:02:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECIN ELTN ETRD KN KS PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG168 |
AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO DALIAN FOR THE WORLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's message of mutual cooperation and mutual learning received a warm welcome in Dalian, Liaoning Province, against the backdrop of the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos event. Local officials were eager to discuss increased economic and cultural exchange between [...] |
2009-09-18 01:08:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECIN ECON EIND EINT EMIN ENIV ETRD PGOV |
| 09SHENYANG170 |
DPRK CONFIDENT BUT ANXIOUS; PRC ENVOYS; INFORMAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new consulate contact who has extensive experience in North Korea believes the DPRK's "charm offensive" is the result of newfound confidence stemming from its missile launch and nuclear test. North Korea feels economically and politically dominated by China, so it is anxious [...] |
2009-09-25 01:50:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON EFIN EMIN ETRD KN KS PARM PREL |
| 09SHENYANG173 |
PRC SCHOLAR: DPRK SUCCESSION UNRESOLVED AND WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a working-level Shenyang-based scholar, most Chinese scholars on Korean Peninsula affairs say that the issue of succession in North Korea is still unresolved. They believe that this uncertainty may undermine any DPRK forwardness in its multilateral or bilateral discu [...] |
2009-09-30 03:36:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAID ECON KN KS PGOV PREL |
| 09SHENYANG183 |
YANBIAN PRC ACADEMIC ON DPRK: NO WAY OUT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a well-connected Chinese expert on DPRK issues, the international community missed its opportunity to negotiate away the North Korean nuclear program in 2006. He questioned the U.S. "exit strategy" and inquired if the United States could stomach a nuclear and prolife [...] |
2009-10-19 04:00:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAID ECON EFIN KN KS PARM PGOV PREL |
| 09SHENYANG185 |
YANBIAN SINO-KOREAN HARMONY: THIS IS HOW WE DO IT [...] (C) SUMMARY: China is hard at work on its ethnic minority policy in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture bordering Russia and North Korea. In exchange for political allegiance, the Chinese seem to allow the local Sino-Koreans considerable sovereignty in governing most issues, from refugee [...] |
2009-10-20 03:24:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAGR ECON KN KS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
| 09SHENYANG187 |
MOORE'S MARAUDERS INKS COOPERATION DEAL WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Pol/EconChief attended the Oct 21 MOU signing ceremony between Shenyang University and Moore's Marauders (MM), an American NGO that recovers the remains of MIA/POWs from past wars. A culmination of two years of cooperation with the University's Mukden POW Camp Studies Research C [...] |
2009-10-26 03:24:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS TINT CH |
| 09SHENYANG194 |
IN THE ZONE: COMPANIES TELL US THEIR DALIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 26 ) 27 visit of officers from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to various development zones in the port city of Dalian, Liaoning Province, provided an opportunity to visit several U.S.-invested and Chinese companies, including Intel, Epoch Internation [...] |
2009-11-05 23:28:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CH ETRD WEET PGOV PREL |
| 09SHENYANG195 |
ZONE DEFENSE: DALIAN ADMINISTRATORS TELL USITC [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) officers visited various development zones and companies (chiefly foreign-invested) in the port city of Dalian, Liaoning Province with the purpose of discerning the differences between the various zones and the benefits they provide to [...] |
2009-11-05 23:28:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CH ETRD WEET PGOV PREL |
| 09SHENYANG200 |
MEETING WITH ROK POLMIN SUNGNAM LIM: FRUSTRATIONS [...] (SBU) ROK Political Minister Lim Sungnam, a relative newcomer in Beijing (two months, overlapping by his account somewhat awkwardly with his predecessor), dropped by Shenyang briefly on November 9 before jetting off to Harbin as part of a Northeast familiarization tour. Lim asked the Consul G [...] |
2009-11-10 03:28:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH PMIL ROK |
| 09SHENYANG204 |
MEETINGS WITH A-POWER ON WIND FARM DEAL [...] (SBU) Summary. A-Power, a Shenyang-based NASDAQ-listed firm, explained its plans for a 600-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Midland, Texas, including production facilities and its relationship to GE and other suppliers. According to company executives, the project will not rely on U.S. stimulus bill [...] |
2009-11-17 01:24:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WEET PGOV PREL CH |
| 09SHENYANG208 |
MIGRANT LABOR MARKET SNAPSHOT: CRACKS IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent visit to a major labor market in Shenyang shows that despite government and NGO efforts to increase protections for migrant workers, an underclass of mostly unskilled migrants continues to exist here. Individuals in this situation have difficulty finding temporary work [...] |
2009-11-20 02:47:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PLAB PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09SHENYANG216 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: BIG PLANS FOR 2ND BRIDGE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Premier Wen Jiabao's October 4-6 meetings in Pyongyang produced a joint PRC-DPRK agreement to build a second bridge across the Yalu River. During ConGenOffs' recent trips to Dandong, officials openly discussed their development plan to include the to-be-built bridge, estimating a M [...] |
2009-12-04 02:32:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAID ECON EIND ETRD EWWT KN KS PBTS PREL |
| 09SHENYANG219 |
CHINESE INVESTMENT IN NORTH KOREA: VIEWS FROM THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese investment in North Korea appears to be a largely state-directed affair, supporting government objectives to engage in resource diplomacy. Chinese businesses consider business in North Korea to be unprofitable, are wary of entering the market, and will only do so with Chi [...] |
2009-12-21 23:33:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON EFIN EIND EMIN ETRD KN KS PGOV PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG220 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: BRIBES SOFTEN LAWS ON REFUGEES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new consulate contact with family ties to one of South Korea's more conservative and recognized DPRK defector NGOs reports that Chinese government and security officials are willing to turn a blind eye to their operations to shelter-in-place undocumented North Koreans who want t [...] |
2009-12-21 23:36:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KN KS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL RS SOCI |
| 09SHENYANG221 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: TRADERS DISCUSS CURRENCY REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts in Northeast China along the PRC- DPRK border say that North Korea's latest currency reform will not have any short-term implications for social stability. Sources agreed that this was a move by the DPRK government to wrest back control of income streams from those who h [...] |
2009-12-21 23:38:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON EFIN KN KS PGOV PINS PREL RS SOCI |
| 09SHENYANG222 |
Consular Section Outreach on SAO Procedures [...] Summary: U.S. Consulate Shenyang's SAO officer met with students, professors, and company executives at various institutions and enterprises in Northeast China in an effort to help them prepare adequately for the visa interview. The institutions and enterprises were chosen for their large nu [...] |
2009-12-22 02:34:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL CH SCUL |
| 09SHENYANG31 |
LIFE IN CHINA'S NORTH: SNAPSHOTS FROM HARBIN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leaders in Heilongjiang Province displayed a well-informed interest and concern about the global economic slowdown while remaining upbeat on prospects for development, particularly in the transportation and environmental areas. Sector-specific industries related to exports and Ru [...] |
2009-02-27 03:18:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ENRG ETRD KN KS PREL RS SENV |
| 09SHENYANG39 |
STRAINED YANJI ECONOMY, YUST/PUST OPERATIONS; DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY: While 2008 was a banner year for trade in Jilin Province as a whole, a recent visit to the China-DPRK- Russia border region showed that the global slowdown has sharply reduced South Korean and Russian trade. This is in stark contrast to the past, when generous capital inflows fro [...] |
2009-03-05 23:08:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD KN KS PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG73 |
LIAONING LEADERSHIP: DALIAN ON THE RISE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the two years since Li Keqiang was plucked from his Party Secretary (PS) post in Shenyang for greater glory in Beijing, no one has been able to fill the void he left behind in Liaoning Province. Two major competitors continue to jockey for Provincial leadership - Governor Chen [...] |
2009-04-24 03:18:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON PGOV PINR |
| 09SHENYANG75 |
STARS QUIETLY ON THE RISE IN JILIN AND HEILONGJIANG [...] (C) SUMMARY: The unique arrangement of Jilin Province's Governor Han Changfu and Party Secretary (PS) Wang Min's reversed roles continues to garner success for the poorest of China's Northeast provinces. Farther north, Heilongjiang's Ji Bingxuan is now firmly ensconced in his role as PS and [...] |
2009-04-24 03:29:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON PGOV PINR |
| 09SHENYANG76 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: CHINESE TENSE, NORTH KOREANS BUSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of the DPRK's detainment of two American journalists, Chinese officials have taken measures to tighten access by foreigners to border areas. Even areas previously open to tourists and foreigners are now restricted. Meetings with government, Public Security Bureau (PSB), [...] |
2009-04-24 04:03:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG90 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: QUIET REFUGEE FRONT, LOCAL AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the DPRK's detainment of two American journalists, China's increased security posture along the border (Ref A) does not seem to have translated into increased pressure on illegal border-crossers from the DPRK. Amcits working for non-U.S. projects in Rason and o [...] |
2009-05-21 02:00:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREF PREL RS |
| 09SHENYANG92 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER ECONOMY: SOME EXASPERATION ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese businessmen and government officials may be experiencing "North Korea fatigue" and, against the backdrop of the DPRK's April 5 missile launch, may in the future become less enthusiastic about undertaking investment opportunities in the DPRK. Trade at Dandong, which account [...] |
2009-05-21 05:02:00 | Consulate Shenyang | SECRET | CH ECON KN KS PGOV PREL RS |
| 10SHENYANG10 |
INTERNET FREEDOM IN CHINA:BIG BROTHER HAS RETURNED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. New regulations have been put in place requiring strict identification of internet users and the installation of software allowing real-time monitoring of internet users and remote control of computers in all internet cafes in Liaoning Province. In order to implement these regu [...] |
2010-01-26 02:30:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH EINT PGOV PHUM SOCI TINT |
| 10SHENYANG19 |
GROWTH, CHANGE, CAUTION: CHRISTIANITY IN SHENYANG [...] (SBU) Summary: According to priests and expatriate residents active in the local Christian community, there have been few recent difficulties for registered churches, though churches remain cautious in their activities. The Protestant Church has seen rapid growth compared to the Roman Catholic [...] |
2010-02-10 08:59:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH KS PGOV PHUM PINS SCUL SOCI |
| 10SHENYANG20 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: CURRENCY REFORM UPDATES [...] (C) SUMMARY. February meetings with DPRK border contacts took the pulse of post-currency reform cross-border trade and investment. Contacts doubted the accuracy of reported widespread starvation and large-scale unrest. Urban-dwellers lost the most during the revaluation. DPRK children rely on r [...] |
2010-02-12 10:00:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON EFIN EIND EMIN KN KS PGOV PREL |
| 10SHENYANG21 |
PRC-DPRK BORDER: AMCIT CROSSERS, TRADE PUSH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Contacts along the PRC-DPRK border profess ignorance of reports about a second American citizen in North Korea. Robert Park's crossing raised a few bureaucratic eyebrows, but there seems to be no backlash. DPRK traders and groups seem to be interacting more publicly with foreign [...] |
2010-02-12 10:16:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC CH ECON ELTN ETRD KN KS PGOV PHUM PINR |
| 10SHENYANG22 |
NGOS TALK NORTHEAST CHINA CHILDCARE AND HEALTH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to local expats with many years of experience in Shenyang, foreign NGOs continue to be required to partner with local governments, but official suspicion of foreign NGOs and social workers has declined. Any lingering suspicion is now individual rather than institutional. [...] |
2010-02-19 08:51:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CM KN KS PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI |
| 10SHENYANG27 |
SHENYANG CONSULAR LEADERSHIP DAY 2010 - DEVELOPING THE NEXT [...] (U) SUMMARY: AmConGen Shenyang's Consular Leadership Day on January 28 brought together the consular section's Locally-Employed Staff (LES), Entry-Level Officers (ELOs), and Eligible Family Member (EFM) by allowing them to collaborate in small groups as they undertook a challenging photo scave [...] |
2010-02-24 09:38:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | CH CMGT CASC CVIS KFRD AMGT AFSI |
| 10SHENYANG4 |
WAITING AND WATCHING: NORTH KOREA AFTER CURRENCY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On December 15, EAP DAS XXXXXXXXXXXX and XXXXXXXXXXXX staff met with XXXXXXXXXXXX, a major player here in Chinese-North Korean economic exchanges. XXXXXXXXXXXX attributed the DPRK,s recent currency reform to several factors: controlling rampant inflation, preventing 'hot money' [...] |
2010-01-07 00:12:00 | Consulate Shenyang | SECRET//NOFORN | CH ECON EFIN EIND EMIN KN KS PGOV PREL |
| 10SHENYANG5 |
FURTHER INSIGHTS ON PRC-DPRK TRADE: DECISIONS, DISPUTES, AND [...] (S) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXXX told Poloff XXXXXXXXXXXX that Kim Jong-il has recently reversed decisions and struggled to implement policies, showing increasing indecisiveness. XXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX also reported that the children of high-ranking DPRK and Chinese officials hijack deals and aid proj [...] |
2010-01-11 02:51:00 | Consulate Shenyang | SECRET | CM ECON EFIN EIND EMIN ENRG PGOV PINS PREL |
| 10SHENYANG8 |
TRYING TO TAME THE INFLATIONARY BEAST [...] (C) Summary: On January 3, a Consulate contact who delivers oil to North Korean partners told PolOff in strict confidence that millions of dollars currently sit unclaimed in China Merchant Bank accounts opened by North Korean businessmen and government officials recalled from China in the sprin [...] |
2010-01-14 01:36:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CH ECON EFIN EIND EMIN KN KS PGOV PREL SENV |
| 89SHENYANG1285 |
BACK TO SCHOOL -- NORTHEAST CHINA STREETS ARE [...] CONFIDENTIAL -- ENTIRE TEXT. 2. SUMMARY: LIFE IN THE NORTHEAST HAS BEEN DRIFTING BACK TO NORMAL. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A PUBLIC STUDENT DEMONSTRATION SINCE MONDAY, MAY 29, WHEN SMALL BANDS OF SHENYANG AND CHANGCHUN STUDENTS STAGED FUNERAL MARCHES (WEARING WHITE HEADBANDS AND CARRYING WREAT [...] |
1989-06-02 06:30:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI CH |
| 89SHENYANG1301 |
NORTHEAST CHINA STUDENTS REACT TO BEIJING [...] SUMMARY: NORTHEAST STUDENTS TODAY RESPONDED TO NEWS OF THE PEOPLES LIBERATION ARMYS FIRING ON PRO- DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATORS IN BEIJING BY ORGANIZING ORDERLY FUNERAL PROCESSIONS AND PROTEST MARCHES TO SPREAD THE WORD TO STUNNED AND SYMPATHETIC CITIZENS. THE STUDENTS ATTACKED THE USE OF BRUTAL [...] |
1989-06-04 15:00:00 | Consulate Shenyang | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI PHUM CH |